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Charlotte Colbert: A Day At Home

NEVER has a day at home seemed quite so isolating and haunting as seen through the eyes of screenwriter and photographer Charlotte Colbert. Her new exhibition, which opens on Friday at the Gazelli Art House, looks at the way the imaginary and reality are easily skewed when someone is left home alone.

"I was interested in the way in which that space becomes a canvas for inner thoughts, fears, fantasies," said Colbert. "It opens up into a sort of epic mind-scape, but also closes in on you like a prison."

The evocative series of black and white pictures focuses on a fictional character - a housewife and writer, roles that become increasingly blurred within the confines of the subject's house. Colbert - who married The Rodnik Band's Philip Colbert earlier this year - believes that the images have a disquieting resonance. The display is an exploration into the human mind, a theme that dominates most of her work.

"They perhaps capture the surrealism of daily life, a sense of loss and confusion, the feeling that one ambles through disconnected fragments of a dream or nightmare," she said. "I like the idea of creating little windows into a narrative, allowing for anyone to fill up the missing pieces with their own stories."